Cartridge-stop for tubular-magazine-guns.



T. G. JOHNSON.

, CARTRIDGE STOPPOR TUBULAR MAGAZINE GUNS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1906.

PATENTED DEC. 25, 19o6.

UNITED STATFS {TENT OFFICE.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTI- CUT, A CORPORATION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906.

Application filed May 26,1906. Serial No. 318,803.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. J QHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing. at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cartridge-Stops for Tubular-Magazine Guns; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in v t Figure 1, a broken view, in side elevation, of a gun provided with my improved cartridge-stops; Fig.- 2, a broken View thereof, in horizontal section, on the line a. bof Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view thereof .in transverse section on the line of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a detached view, in side elevation, of one of the stops; Fig. 5, a plan view thereof.

Iy invention relates to an improvement in cartridge-stops for tubular-magazine guns, the object being to produce a simple, reliable, and convenient one-piece stop adapted to be manually operated to at any time permit any or all of the cartridges in the tubular magazine to be unloaded without operating the breech mechanism of the gun.

With these ends in view invention consists in the construction and combination to be hereinafter described, and pointed o'ut in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown I form an outwardly-projecting integral finger-button or fixed projection 2' upon the rear end'or tail 3 of a ivotal cartridge-stop 4, having a vertica pivot-hole 4, hung upon a screw-pivot 5 and extended forward to form a long stop-finger 6, the extreme forward end of which is turned inward to form a nose 7 to engage with the heads of cartridges 8, located in the tubular magazine 9. By preference and as shown I employ two of these stops, which are sub:

stantially identical in construction and located in long horizontal recesses 10, formed in the inner faces of the opposite walls of the gun frame or receiver 11. The'recesses '10 are not located opposite each other, the recess in the left-hand wall in the gun-frame being located above the recess in the right- I hand Wall thereof, as shown in Fig. 3. This arrangement is resorted to to clear other features of the mechanism. The outer or bottom walls of these recesses are formed near their rear ends with lateral clearance o enings or holes 12 for the outward passage t ough them of the finger-buttons 2, which project just enough beyond the outer faces of the side walls of'the gun-frame to permit them to be operated by the user of the gun,

who employs his thumb and forefinger for the purpose. At a point in front of its pivot 5 each stop is formed with a slot 13 for the reception of the rear end of a leaf-spring 14.,

which is located in the bottom of the forward end of the recess of the stop. These springs exert a constant effort to swing the stops so as to keep their noses 7 in position to 'be engaged by the head of the rearmost cartridge in the tubular ma azine. When the stops are so swun ,theirfmger-buttonsZ will project slightly t ough the holes 12 in the sides of the gun frame or receiver, as before explained. To prevent the nose 7 from being swung too far inward by the spring 14,

a raised stop-shoulder 15 is formed upon the outer face of the extreme rear end of the tail 3 of each of the stops 4, and therefore to the rear of their finger-buttons 2. These stopshoulders engage with the bottom Walls of the recesses 10 and prevent the cartridgestops from being swung too far by the said springs 14. The operation ofth'e cartrid estops has to be very nicely adjusted, and or that reason in then manufacture the stopshoulders 15 are left full enough to permit them to be filed down and so adjusted until they bear upon the bottom walls of the recesses 10 with the noses 7 of the stops in exactly the right position with reference to the heads of the cartridges.

The screW-pivots'S are formed at their 5 lower ends with externally-threaded heads 5* and at their upper ends with small trunnions 5, their intermediate portions passing through the pivot-holes 4 in the stops 4. For the reception of the said screw-pivots 5 the side walls of the frame are formed with pivot-holes 11 entering their lower edges or and having their lower portions threaded the reception of the threaded heads 5 of the screW- 1vots 5 and their upper ends con-v .tracte to fit the small trunnions 5 thereof.-

It will be understood that in the normal face of its right-hand side wall formed with a operation of the gun the pivotal cartridgecarrier, which is not shown, but which may be of any approved construction, coacts with the stops, so. as to retire them and permit the feeding of the cartridges rearward out of the tubular magazine, When, however, it is desired to unload the magazine, the user of the arm clasps the gun frame or receiver and with his thumb and forefinger presses the finger-buttons ends are swung the cartridges, discharged from the magazine. In this way the magazinernay be unloadedquickly and quietly without disturbing the breech mechanism of the gun.

outward and disengaged fro-m locate a cartridge-stop in the bottom of a longitudinal recess formed in the inner face of one of the side walls of the frameof a tubular-magazine firearm and to provide for its manual operation a button made independently of it and loosely mounted in a lateral bearing-hole leading out of the rear end i ent elevations to of the said recess. I do not,

tion with an operating-button for its manual operation, but only my particular construcing witnesses.

tion.

' I clai1n In a tubular-niagazine firearm, the combination with a gun fraine having the inner 2 of the respective stops in ward, whereby the noses at their forward which are then left. free to be longitudinal recess, and the inner face of its left hand side wall formed with a longitudinal recess located above the recess before mentioned, and the said side walls being also formed. with lateral openings leading out of the rear ends of the said recesses, and with downwardly-opening vertical pivot-holes the 1 lower ends of which are threaded and the upper ends of which .are reduced in diameter; of a tubular magazine, spring-actuatedcartridge-stops located in the said recesses,

\ formed with vertical pivot-holes and adapted at their forward ends to be engaged with the heads of cartridges in the tubular magazine; screw-pivots entering the said threaded pivot-holes in the side walls of the gunframe, I am aware that it has been proposed to pivot-holes in the stops, and formed at their.

and passing upward through ,the

lower ends with threaded heads taking into the threads of the said threaded pivot-holes; and fixed finger-buttons or projections located upon the outer faces of the rear ends of the stops and projecting outward through the said openings which are located at differcorrespond to the difference therefore, 1 in elevation between the respective recesses. broadly claim a cartridgestop in combina- In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- THOMAS C. JOHNSON. Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER,, HERBERT F. BEEBE. 

